Old Friends (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Country  »  Singer/Songwriter
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Label: Sugar Hill Records
• UPC: 015891102528
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106626980
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #67118 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #127512 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #71 in Singer/Songwriter (See Top 100 Singer/Songwriter Bestsellers)

Personnel: Guy Clark (vocals, guitar); Verlon Thompson (guitar, percussion, background vocals); Michael Henderson (slide guitar); Vince Gill (guitar); Sam Bush (fiddle, mandolin, mandola); Dave Pomeroy (bass); Miles Wilkinson (percussion); Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash (background vocals).

OLD FRIENDS emphasizes much of what people love about Guy Clark: the quiet grace, the homespun wisdom, and the earthy songwriting gift. The all-acoustic arrangements sound so organic and spontaneous that this could almost be a live album. For much of this recording, Clark is at his most quietly poignant, whether nonchalantly extolling the virtues of fraternity on the title track, promoting good will on "Hands," or poetically describing the immigration experience on "Immigrant Eyes."

Like any Clark album, though, this one has its moments of dry humor (the anti-therapy "Doctor Good Doctor," and the loopy "Watermelon Dream"). There are also some well-chosen covers of tunes by Clark's pals, including a faithful rendition of the Townes Van Zandt classic "To Live Is to Fly" and Flatlander Joe Ely's waltz, "The Indian Cowboy." OLD FRIENDS is one of Clark's most low-key efforts, as solid as it is unassuming.

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